E.R. Baxter III, Niagara County Community College Professor Emeritus of English, has been a fellow of a New York State Public Service Award for fiction and a recipient of a Just Buffalo Award for Fiction. Previous publications include the chapbooks And Other Poems; A Good War; Hunger; and What I Want; books of poetry: Looking for Niagara (Slipstream Press); Niagara Lost and Found: New and Selected Poems (Abyss Publications); and the creative nonfiction Niagara Digressions, awarded the silver by The ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award for 2012 in the Ecology and Environment category.
Perry S. Nicholas is an Assistant English professor at Erie Community College North in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria College, Niagara County Community College, and most recently, New York College in Athens, Greece.
Perry has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. His poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Literary House Review, Caesura, Word Worth, Not Just Air, Slant, Feile-Festa, Louisiana Literature, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Chest, The Healing Muse and The New York Quarterly. His poems have appeared on fifteen occasions in the Buffalo News. He has published over 100 poems in print and online.
His first full-length book, The River of You, was published in September 2009 by FootHills Publishing. His second book of poetry, What the World Sees, was published by Saddle Road Press in July 2011. His third book, Small Crafts, was published by The Writer’s Den in 2012. The fourth book , Beginnings: Poems to Greece and Back is in print as of January 2013. The Company We Keep, co-authored with Maria Sebastian, is his current fifth book of poetry.
Perry Nicholas is the co-host of the Center for Inquiry/Just Buffalo Literary Café in Buffalo, N.Y. He has also judged the Word Worth journal’s poetry/essay contests and the 2013 Just Buffalo Annual Poetry contest.